Google stopping at .php ????

[fnsnoop]

Does google stop at the ".php" or just the ? in ".php?"

like would this work for SOE?
www.asdf.com/test.php/var1/var2/

Alex

[Weedpacket]

Google would go right to the end: it's got no reason to think that "test.php" is not a directory name that has a dot in it. As far as Google is concerned (and this goes for all URLs) everything thing from the / after the host (and port) up to the ? (if there is one) is just "path"; it has no more meaning to anything except the named host than that.

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by fnsnoop
like would this work for SOE?
www.asdf.com/test.php/var1/var2/

Alex

originally posted by Weedpacket
Google would go right to the end: it's got no reason to think that "test.php" is not a directory name that has a dot in it. As far as Google is concerned (and this goes for all URLs) everything thing from the / after the host (and port) up to the ? (if there is one) is just "path"; it has no more meaning to anything except the named host than that.

Our man Tim Perdue, author of this site (originally) [?] and such great places as SourceForge.net, wrote a touchstone article on this over six years ago (IIRC the dates...):

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20000526.php3?page=1

And, FWIW, it's generally stated that Google has no problems with reading query strings these days. How true that is, or whether Google's share is sufficient to stand alone as SOE ...
... but it's probable that if Google can do it, most other major SE's can do it (or are desperately trying to implement it) as well...

HTH,

[Kudose]

That's genius. Although I do have a few questions. 🙂

1. What will the final URL that the EU sees be?

I see this:

/*
Sample URLs:
/local/2/us/IA/a/50613/apartment/ - apartments in Cedar Falls, IA
/local/2/us/IA/a/         - group of cities in Iowa
/local/2/us/              - States in the US
/local/1/us/IA/a/50301/       - Des Moines City.net
*/

But that only leaves me thinking website.com/page.php/var1/var2/etc/

2. Can you give an example 'posting' form that uses that methodology?

Thanks. 🙂

[dalecosp]

I've tried it, but not gotten into it too far. I was going to do it as a rewrite to a site I've done twice before, but I ended up with so much to do I put them on Mordecai's tail, so to speak (and we owe him a few hundred bucks more at the end of this week, I think).

1. If your forced script is called "local", then it will be http://yousite.com/local/var1/var2, etc., as you mention. If you want it to be the default page, you'll have to (I think, it's the way I did it) put a header in the "index.php" (or whatever Apache thinks is the default index page) to point it to this script.

2. Not off the top of my head ... (grep POST /www/data/somesite on devel server...) Unfortunately, I can't, but it doesn't mean it's not doable. Simply that I didn't get around to it, and I'm not a full-time programmer (spend lots of time fixing machines, too). Sorry... 🙁